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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 edition. Excerpt: ... SECTION XXI. ' On choosing rich Men,-without Parts, Spirit, or Liberality, as Representatives in the National Council. XT has been long observed, that none are more desirous of increasing their property than they who have abundance. The greatest misers are those who possess the greatest riches. jNone are fonder of the world than they who have engrossed a large share of it. If tlrey should acknowledge that they have enough money, yet they cannot but confess, at the same time, that they think themselves entitled, in consequence of their property, to civil honors, power and distinction. They have a kind of claim, in their own opinion, to court favor; especially as they are ready to use the influence, which their riches give them, in support of any minister for the time being, and in the general extension of royal prerogative. Are such men likely to be independent members of a senate, honestly following the dictates of their judgment or conscience, and consulting no interest but that of Man in general, and the people in particular, by whom they are deputed? There are no mengreedier of gain than such men, and none more attached to those vain honors, which a mi nister bestows in order to facilitate the movements of his political machine. None will rake so deeply in the dirt to pick up a penny as a rich miser; none will contend more eagerly for a feather in the cap, than those whose minds are weak, empty, and attached to the world by the consciousness of being. in great measure, its proprietors. But what is it to me, as an elector, that the man who solicits my v.pte has, by great cunning, sordid arts, and insatiable avarice, accumulated great riches? Has wisdom. has virtue,has knowledge, has philanthropiy increased with his increasing fortune?...
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- EditoreTheClassics.us
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 1230334033
- ISBN 13 9781230334035
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine80
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